Conference Report: The Third Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS 2021), 9–11 June, 2021

Abstract

Between June 9 and June 11, 2021 approximately 80 speakers participated at the third East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) conference that took place in a hybrid format, online and in person at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in Serbia. The EENPS was founded in 2015 by the fellows of the first cohort of European Philosophy of Science (EPSA) fellowship scheme for junior philosophers working in Central and Eastern Europe. Not to overlapwith EPSA biannual conferences, the EENPS decided to organize its conferences in even years: the first conference took place in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2016 and the second in Bratislava, Slovakia 2018. The third conference of the network was likewise planned for June 2020, but it was delayed for one year because of the pandemic. Select papers from each conference have been published in special issues of various journals – this year they will be published in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (ISPS). The participants joined from all over the world, which also fulfilled one of the main aims of the network: to foster connections between philosophers of science working in Central and Eastern Europe (the network’s focal region) and those working inWestern Europe and elsewhere. The conference provided a good variety of topics, ranging from general philosophy of science to philosophy of specific sciences, history and philosophy of science, formal philosophy of science, and philosophy of mathematics and logic, and had two keynote talks, given by Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge) and Gerhard Schurz (University of Düsseldorf). The next conference of the EENPS will take place in summer 2022 in Tartu, Estonia, andwe expect that it will attract evenmore submissions and that by then it